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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?
(a) He needs to decide whether to steal the goods or chase the horse.
(b) She needs to decide whether to go to the market or go home.
(c) He needs to decide whether to chase Pan Andrew or the horse.
(d) He needs to decide whether to kidnap Joseph or go back to Krakow.

2. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(b) He helps to break up the fight.
(c) He unloads the goods from the wagon.
(d) He drives the carriage for his father.

3. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?
(a) By the stranger's foreign features.
(b) By the stranger's accent.
(c) By the stranger's food.
(d) By the stranger's clothing.

4. What is the name of the fortress and castle of the king of Poland on a hill above the Vistula River?
(a) Wawel.
(b) Cloth Hall.
(c) St. Ann.
(d) Mazovia.

5. When the Polish people hear the word "Tartar," they:
(a) Know they need to go pay some taxes.
(b) Feel like dancing.
(c) Feel their the blood in their veins is going to freeze.
(d) Want to eat fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joseph first hears the trumpeter play from the Church of Our Lady Mary, what surprises him?

2. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

3. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?

4. What does Joseph Charnetski see as he is riding in the back of the wagon while in the caravan?

5. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?

(see the answer key)

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